Friday Clean up...

Thank the gods it's Friday! This week has been dragging on forever!

Happy Birthday Cory! This is a birthday card featuring Sebastion and Webster from Beyond! Sorry for the bad scan, I hope to have an inked version minus the personalization up next week.

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Here is an older picture of my Jupiter City when the Joh, Isaac and Jessie are around 11. I love picturing family togetherness, like how Sahl (middle older with dark hair) has his hands on his wife, Sarah's shoulder and his son, Joh, too. This picture is at a time when all of the Sci-Core family are all on the same page. After this time everything starts to fall apart.

There hasn't been a decent update to this site in a little while. But still has a whole bunch of good stuff that will someday come to fruition. You can go to the original site here: Jupiter City

This weekend my wife and I are heading to the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. I love the Japanese Festival. Great food, awesome cultural exchanges and hot Asian girls to draw!(oops... Sorry, honey... Hell, you already know.)

I post pictures of the festival on Tuesday, have a great holiday weekend!

More finished work in the works, I'm promising a color version of something and a Electric Monk episode, hopefully. Maybe I will get more finished with a 3 day weekend.

Later
Bob!

P.S. Piglamb will eat your brains!

A friend of mine won this disturbing toy from a claw machine.

I'm Batman

Greetings
Hope everyone is enjoying my daily posts; I have been on a roll lately with my new pens and a new pad of Bristol board. It's nice to actually be producing finished work instead of doodling in my sketchbook. But in all reality those old sketchbooks are a gold mine when I'm looking for ideas for finished work!

While I was drawing this picture, I was thinking about the way that Bruce Timm the design artist of "Batman: the animated series" draws batman. He draws Batman almost exclusively in the shadows. The 90% shadow technique is perfect for the Batman persona; he should stay in the shadows because your imagination can create more scary stuff than what is really in reality. Thus why the best horror flicks show you nothing, just imply and use nasty sounds. That's why "Alien" is my favorite horror movie because they kept the creature to the shadows.

I also thought of this YouTube vid: I'm batman
Watch all the way to the end to know what I am talking about!

Enjoy
Bob!

Cloaked figure

This is a drawing I found in a sketch I found in a very old sketchbook. I remembered thinking about a cloaked figure coming out of steam/smoke, I don't remember why? It reminded me of some imagery that I am writing and drawing in Beyond. So I decided to finish it up and post it.
If anyone wants to request a subject I get motivated by others enthusiasm. E-mail me at: Boblearned@Gmail.com

Hopefully some color work and more Electric monk for those who are interested in the little bugger.

Please post your thoughts too this site is about you as well as my work.
Enjoy,
Bob

Yeah!

My puppy is home he's out of the hospital. He's jumping around acting crazy once again.

I'm not getting much artwork done, with my dog sick, and now he's better so i gotta go play with him! But I did finish this piece up while he was gone.

Enjoy!

Bob

Electric Monk

Electric Monk: The arrival

Enjoy!
Bob
PS...Please post comments, I know your looking at my blog, leave a little note for me!

Friday clean up...

This week is a bust... But i'll make up for it next week with a full chapter of Electric Monk and a bunch of finished work...Maybe including a full color entry to my blog! Wow.

Here are some really bad scans of some old sketchbook work. Look for someof these characters in future finished work! (again sorry for the crappy scans)

Again... more cool stuff next week!

Enjoy!

Later

Bob

PS. I just read a really nicely written blog post about the Yezidi people of northern Iraq. Check this out: http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/008159.php . Even though I find this writing about these people beautiful and serene. A Yezidi tribe stoned a young Yezidi woman to death for marring a Muslim man. Not even a isolated group such as the Yezidi are immune to the paternal ego driven violence.

Random Sketches...

My doggie is sick...he's in the hospital. I'm very depressed afraid that he wont make it. That's why I didn't post anything yesterday.

Beyond: the sketch...

And i drawing i did for the band Achalachia

And just a drawing i wanted to finish up of a friend of mine. Choose corectly on her question she will kill for "The Damned."

Enjoy...

Later

Bob

New comic: Beyond

Here is a progression from sketch to inks for a little promo piece for the new comic Beyond: the late adventures of Sebastion Scott.

It's about a young goth outcast boy named Sebastion... who dies. Yes you say this is what most young goth outcast boy seemingly yearn for. You are right in thinking that even in death our young malcontent is still not as happy as you would imagine, in that he becomes a wraith instead of a vampire or another undead legion.

Enter Webster, a six foot buffed out version of Sebastion imaginary childhood purple one-eyed friend (think Grimace turned Ahnuld.) Web looked into Seb's brain and pulled out the apperance of the only friend he ever trusted completly. Webster is there to befriend Sebastion and teach him the ways of the underworld.

Sound good? Well, that's all I got...deal, K. I'll try to get it copy of it
colored this weekend and post it on the Flight Board!

The Mini-comic Electric monk is almost done. Post the first chapter soon!

Chocolate...Dog

As promised pictures of my new puppy!
Chocolate Spot!

My poooopy dog!

Later

Bob

Sketchbook Monday...

We got a puppy this weekend, it's a English Pointer and Catahoula Leopard Mix. He is so cute, I will post pictures of him soon. It kept us up all night the first night with it's howling, but he's getting better.

It's Monday...I'm tired... here's some sketches... not new ones, but hopefully they are not up on my other art pages... I dont remember, and i ain't checking! Ha!

Heres my boys from my Jupiter City Comic: Isaac and Joh...

If you want to see more of them check out JUPITER CITY

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These drawings were for a comic I was working on with my five year old nieces and nephews for them to star in a short comic. Highlights include Mr. Pickle , the Salamander People and talking monkeys! I will still finish one or two of these before they turn 20! maybe?

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And other assorted pages of random girls that fill my sketchbooks! Ha

Enjoy

Sorry for the bad scans... I need a new scanner, Bad!

Later

Bob!

Friday Clean up!

I'm going to use my Friday posts as a clean up of things I want to voice my opinions and other assorted tid bits I found during the previous week.

I just found this kick-ass Sensi Jesus statue... Cracked me up!

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I just wanted to show my support and tell everyone about how awesome Stardust the movie was. It wasn't as good as the book but a very close adaption with additions by the writer Neil Gaiman himself. It's well acted, directed and all around well written movie. You should check it out if you haven't already! I'm buying it on Dvd when it comes out.

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And, this is a logo I came up with for my Friend, John.

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Just wanted to start to add some links I check on a regular basis that I think you would like to see, too!

**LINKS**
Danielle Corsetto's Girls with Slingshots
Jake Parker
Tomer Hanuka
Denis Goulet
Claire Wendling
Bengal

Enjoy,
See you next week!
Bob

Electronic Monk

This character is not a superhero, though he has the physique of one. So that is how I am justifing my superhero comment..HA.

This character was developed to be nothing but a fun Challenge exclusively for my online page. The idea is of a time traveling malfunctioning pacifistic robot monk set accsidently to do the opposite of it's program. But it will have no origin or story whatsoever! Enjoy!

Look for the adventures of the Electric Monk, Soon right here on this page!
Thanks for coming by!
Later Bob

Demon from Beyond

So as I promised a demon or demonic entity of some type.

For the last couple of months I have been finishing writing and drawing my first comic book "Beyond." In the story the character named Sebastion will, in the future, have to fight and imprison lots of these demonic types. So I figured I should start designing a whole lot of them so I can add them to my scripts... Lots more sketched and maybe some finished ones soon.


Here is the main character for "Beyond" Sebastion Scott...

Sebastion is a teenager who died and is now a wraith...or so he thinks?

Please add your comment and drop me a line at Boblearned@gmail.com . If you want to get a hold of me or have a request of me please just ask!

Thanks for stopping by...
Later
Bob!

What I do at work...

I didn't really know where to start this blog at...so I decided to show you what I do every day. My slog at work is graphic cookie cutter art I produce. Some of it isn't quite that bad....some is very bad! It's mostly conseptual ideas for layouts and products ideas. From photo borders to full fledged layouts.

Here are some of my more imaginative pieces...

This drawing was inspired by the paintings of Roy Liechtenstein.(Hit Liechtenstein's name to see original.) It was later made into the Paint Splash layout that look nothing like this. I am more drawn into this style of these paintings than Liechtenstein's comics series. Which is funny because i am so into comic book and comic book imagery.


These are some spot illustrations that i produced for the Blocks layout that we developed.

You can see them used here.

I dont get to work on demons or superheroes like I would enjoy doing... I get to produce these type of things I'm told to draw....ha

Next up: Demons and Superheroes...

Welcome to Oxymoron Press...

Hello my name is Robert Learned III. I'm a Graphic Artist that works out of St. Louis, Missouri. I work in many different artistic fields from photographic restoration to illustration work. I specialize in comic book illustration and web page design. I'm fluent in Adobe Photoshop 7.0. I produce my logo work in Adobe Illustrator and page layouts in Quark Express. I am a skilled artist and have a background in drawing, painting and sculpture.I hope to show my sketches photos and daily artwork on this Blog Spot....

I'm am going to attempt a regular schedule of posts...if it means i post only doodles.

See ya later
Bob

BONUS!
The Procrastinator...